The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictures of Dublin.
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There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.
I'll tell you what, it doesn't get more beautiful than the west of Ireland. Connemara and County Derry are quite stunning, really.
I grew up in a little village in the west of Ireland.
Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked the church, that I had despoiled my mother's name, and that if I returned to Limerick, I would surely be found hanging from a lamppost.
I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
I'm on the university board in Limerick, so I visit the city often.
The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
When we went to Belfast we saw some beautiful countryside and coastlines.
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.